ABSTRACT This paper responds to the new story about the history of pragmatism and early analytic philosophy presented in Cheryl Misak's Cambridge Pragmatism. One of the new story's key claims is that pragmatism was a home-grown American philosophy that entered the intellectual scene of 1920s England as an imported good. Taking up the long-neglected case of the English logician John Venn, the paper shows that pragmatism, as defined by Misak, existed in Cambridge, England several decades before the turn of the century. It concludes with the view that a more complex and richer perspective on the twin histories of pragmatism and early analytic philosophy, on both sides of the Atlantic, is needed.

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1900 年前在英国剑桥的实用主义

摘要 本文回应了谢丽尔·米萨克 (Cheryl Misak) 的剑桥实用主义 (Cambridge Pragmatism) 中关于实用主义历史和早期分析哲学的新故事。新故事的一个关键主张是实用主义是一种本土的美国哲学，它作为一种进口商品进入了 1920 年代英国的知识界。该论文以英国逻辑学家约翰·维恩（John Venn）长期以来被忽视的案例为例，表明米萨克所定义的实用主义在世纪之交的几十年前就存在于英国剑桥。它的结论是，需要对大西洋两岸的实用主义和早期分析哲学的双重历史有一个更复杂和更丰富的观点。